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This silent, color film contains beautiful edited Ektachrome home movie footage with professional titles documenting a 1959 street fair on Upper Grant Avenue in San Francisco, which was the center of Beat culture. The film includes shots of filmmaker Dion Vigne and his wife Loreon, artist and occultist Marjorie Cameron, and artist Wallace Berman, displaying and selling their art works. The film begins with a close up view of a street vendor in the fair, and the various wares that they are selling. There are views of people looking at the various items that vendors are selling in addition to footage of the vendors sitting down and being relaxed. People are shown rifling through and looking at objects for sale, including pottery and the filmmaker also shows close up views of paintings and art for sale at the event. There are also beautiful views of the banners and fans overhead of the vendors and attendees, as well as wide views of the street market itself. The film ends with zoomed in footage of men sitting on the ground.

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